linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: keystone: add a work around to handle asynchronous external abort

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Message-ID: <20150818162858.42035da0@xhacker>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:28:58 +0800
From:	Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...vell.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	"santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com" <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>,
	"Murali Karicheri" <m-karicheri2@...com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <ssantosh@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: keystone: add a work around to handle asynchronous
 external abort

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:13:34 +0100
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 08:09:17PM -0700, santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com wrote:
> > From the logs this seems to be mostly clock related issue for some
> > peripheral. If the bootloader clock enable all hack still exists,
> > may be you can try that out.
> > 
> > Another way to debug this is to start disabling peripheral drivers
> > from the kernel 1 by 1 and see if the issue goes away.
> 
> Highly unlikely to make any difference.  As the failure happens soo early
> with the patch applied, the kernel hasn't had much of a chance to touch
> the hardware - about the only things are the decompressor and the kernel
> touching the early console.  As they seem to be working, it suggests
> that's not the cause.
> 
> It seems to be pointing towards something in the boot loader...
> 
> Normally, uboot will hook itself into the vectors to report errors, but
> I wonder whether uboot enables asynchronous aborts while it's running.
> Don't forget to make sure that the aborts are disabled again prior to
> calling the kernel.
> 

Another possible cause: trustzone software.

we root caused such kind of asynchronous external abort on Marvell Berlin SoCs
to a trustzone bug. I'm not sure whether keystone linux is running at normal
world or not.
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